Postoperative opioid prescribing: Getting it RIGHTT. | AHRQ Patient Safety Network

Postoperative opioid prescribing: Getting it RIGHTT. | AHRQ Patient Safety Network

• Review
 
• Published February 2018

Postoperative opioid prescribing: Getting it RIGHTT.

Yorkgitis BK, Brat GA. Am J Surg. 2018 Feb 6; [Epub ahead of print].

Use of mnemonics to recall standardized steps can help augment reliability. This review discusses the development of the RIGHTT mnemonic (Risk for adverse event, Insight into pain, Going over pain plan, Halting opioids, Tossing unused opioids and Trouble identification) designed to help surgeons improve safety of opioid prescribing for surgical pain.

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